The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-29

farming, but women can and do make
money in all three.
Success is graded, of course, as elsewhere
The women ranchers whom | know person
ally-and that is no very large number
are not in the business on a large scale
Some of them are not ranchhng as Eastern
people, with their ideas of the bigneSS of
Western operations, interpret the word at
all. They have no more than six or ten
cattle, perhaps, and from that the number
will run up TO twenty-five or fifty head, but
they are an energetic and business-like set of
women who are working industriously in
the day of small things, and of course with
some, though perhaps with no large numbers
| OF others, the day of larger things has
already come"
How the ranchwoman, whose business
enterprise Mr.. Roosevelt commends in the
West sometimes makes her start from the
East is, Illustrated in the case of a New
York boarding house keeper who is work
ing at both ends of the line just now.
Keeping boarders is one of the most weari-
some and discouraging ways in which
woman earns living. But when she can
keep $50 of them the case is different indeed.
This energetic woman had laid by money
enough some three or four years ago to take
up land in Dakota and stock, on a small
scale, a cattle range. Since that time her
cattle have thriven and her boarding has
prospered. With the profits of the latter
she has increased the number and improved
the breed of the former, and is looking for
ward to the day, not very far distant, when
her Western venture shall be SO well started
and under such promising Roadway that she
need heed no longer the complaints of the
parlor floor lodger whose egg is always q
minute too hard or ten seconds too soft, but
can put up her Gotham shutters and settle
herself to grow up with the country in the
free and bounding West, where her hand
need practice its cunning in the miEing of
hash no more
The women of the cities and towns East
and West have sometimes a curious notion
of what they are going to see when they
make their first acquaintance with cattle
range There was one little lady who went
from New York last year who aighted
with her piano in front OF her husbands sod
dugout and was not a little surprised to find
that if the doorway was enlarged to let the
musical instrument in, the family for want
of the room it occupied would have to sleep
outside. She took the only course possible
under the circumstances, moved for the
instant erection of a frame house and was
comfortably domiciled with her piano in
just the nook, she wanted for it in the course
of very few months. Most women have a
way of taking their home and a good many
home comforts with them wherever they
go.
OF the women who have had the courage
to make a bold departure for themselves
some few have been successful conspicuous
ly among the rich women OF the country.
There is Mrs Bishop Hiff Warren, who is
credited with being the weathiest woman
in Colorado. She is worth $40 1000, 000 and
has made it on cattle with no other business
advise than that furnished by her own
mother wit Another cattle queen who has
amaSsed about 81 ,0OO, 900 is Mrs Rogers, the
wife of minister in Corpus Christi, Tex
Her husband ministers to the spiritual wants
of widely scattered congregation. but Mrs
Rogers, whose talents are of the business
order, went into stock raising on a small
scale, experimentally, some time ago. She
gave her personal attention to the matter
from the start, leaving very little to the
overseerS.. She bought for herself, sold for
herself, knew how her cattle were fed,
learned to be fearless rider and was over
the range about as frequently as the cow
boys she employed and more carefully. She
enlarged her enterprises every season, and
her business is still growing to-day
Two rich widows who have inherited
ranches from their husbands are Mrs Mas
sey, of Colorado, and Mrs Mary Easterly, of
Nevada. Mrs. Massey went to Colorado as
agent for life insurance company, mar
ried man with 10000 head of cattle and,
it is said, manages them quite as well as he
ultl NILS EdSUeTly mas uOU a large nerd, DIlt
her stock is of a fine grade and she gets good
prices for it, She is worth 100000 maybe.
Mrs. lift, widow of John Tiff, the cattle king,
and Mrs Meredith, widow of Gen. Menedith
of Illinois, are excellent business women.
and making money on stock. Ofunmarried
women there is Clara Dempsey, of Nevada,
as well as Eller Callahan, of recent news
paper fame, who are worth, the one $50, 900,
the other rather less, which they have
earned from the initial dollar themselves,
and who are young women to have made so
fair start in the world The Marquise de
More though she leaves stock raising to her
husband, enjoys life on the ranch and spends
good share of her time in the West, being
good shot and a fine huntswoman. The
number of women who have gone West and
made money is not a small one and it grows
every year. ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.